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title: "Accessibility Checker Rule Help: RPT_Media_VideoReferenceTrigger"
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import "../../../styles/ToolHelp.scss"
import { CodeSnippet, Tag } from "carbon-components-react";

<div className="toolHelp">
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<Column colLg={5} colMd={3} colSm={4} className="toolLeft">

### Who does this affect?

 * People with visual impairment

### Why is this important?

By providing an additional audio track, users can choose to replace the original video sound track with one that includes information that focuses on actions, characters, or scene changes that are important to understanding the content. This is sometimes referred to as an 'audio description', as in 'a description in audio format', and should not be confused with captions.

</Column>
<Column colLg={11} colMd={5} colSm={4} className="toolMain">

<div id="locLevel"></div>

### Verify availability of a user-selectable audio track with description of visual content
Pre-recorded media should have an audio track that describes visual information

[IBM 1.2.5 Audio Description (Prerecorded)](http://www.ibm.com/able/guidelines/ci162/audio_descriptions.html)

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### What to do

 * Verify that the media has an audio description track;
 * OR, add an audio description track to the media.


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</Row>
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export default ({ children, _frontmatter }) => (<React.Fragment>{children}</React.Fragment>)